crosland’s new social-democratic reformism
The idea of Gordon Brown writing on the future of socialism will come as a surprise to many, but that is precisely what he invites us to discuss in his foreword to a new edition of Anthony Crosland’s...
View Articlego forth and occupy! – editorial of the commune, part 1
The first week of April saw the leaders of world capitalism converge on London for the G20 summit, which agreed to a version of Gordon Brown’s latest plan to “save the world”. The Prime Minister...
View Articleleaflet for compass conference: the party’s over
Leaflet for Saturday’s COMPASS conference: click here for PDF The economic crisis and the collapse of faith in Parliament have posed a significant challenge to the authority of our leaders. Not only...
View Articlelabour party: no return to the living dead!
by Chris Kane The much vaunted “green shoots of recovery” from the recession have been revealed to be no more than weeds in the New Labour cabinet. The only actual recovery we have seen has been the...
View Articlepurnell’s new ‘old labour’ is just new ‘new labour’
by David Broder American conservatives’ televised attacks on the National Health Service erupted onto the British political scene in August, with the great and good of the Labour Party leaping to the...
View Articletuc: another wasted opportunity?
by Gregor Gall This was by far the highest profile Congress of the TUC in many years, most of that being to do with the pre-general election period of more frenzied official politics. The Congress...
View Articlegordon brown’s workhouses for single mothers
by Zoe Smith “That’s better for them, better for their babies and better for all of us” Gordon Brown on his proposal to house single mothers in state-run supervised homes September was an exceptionally...
View Articlevoting labour is not a fall-back option
“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in…”*** by David Broder The bitter chill of winter is never more harshly felt than at a labour movement conference...
View Articlewhere is the labour party going? london forum, monday 23rd
The next of The Commune’s London public forums is on the subject of the social role, degeneration and future course of the Labour Party. The meeting takes place from 7pm on Monday 23rd November at the...
View Articlea class war in westminster?
by Adam Ford When Gordon Brown claimed the Conservative Party’s inheritance tax policy was “dreamed up on the playing fields of Eton”, he must have thought he was scoring an easy political point....
View Articletime to vote labour?
a letter to The Commune by Bill Butlin The impending public expenditure cuts look like being a key issue for trade unionists at the next general election. The Labour Party and the Tories both maintain...
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